Dzieci i książki w Bibliotece Shoah

Abstract

The author of the article analyses issues concerning the role of a book and reading during the Holocaust on the basis of chosen books dedicated to a young reader. According to the researcher, war experiences of little protagonists intersect with literary stories which help children to survive or become a metaphor of their fears, dreams and all things that are intangible. What is more, the book and its war reading are a symbol of a particular order which has been lost during the war and seems to be impossible to retrieve. That is why the definition of Akademia Pana Kleksa (Mr Kleks’ Academy) by J. Brzechwa as the story about the world, which on the one hand is destroyed by the Holocaust, but on the other is degraded by the lack of ink which ensures the cohesion of the story about the world, has a key meaning for the analysed problem.